Tongue for vehicles.



PATENTED JAN. 14; 1908.

A. M. WARNER. TONGUE FOR VEHICLES.

APPLICATION FILED MAYQ. 1907.

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PATENT OFFICE.

ARTHUR M. WARNER, OF ALMONT, MICHIGAN.

TONGUE FOR VEHICLES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 14, 1908.

Application filed May 9i 1907. Serial No. 372.783.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it'known that I, ARTHUR M. WARNER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Almont, in the county of Lapeer and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Tongue, of which the following is a specification.

My improvements relate to tongues for wagons, sleighs and other vehicles and the object of my invention is to provide a tongue that can be manufactured at moderate cost and that shall have great strength.

My invention consists of a tongue formed of angle bars bent to the desired shape and reinforced. by plates, braces and separators, and provided with proper bearings for the king and queen bolts.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side view and Fig. 2 a plan of my improved tongue. Figs. 3, 4 and 5 are cross sections on the lines 3-3, 4l4, and 55 of Fig. 1 respectively. Fig. 6 is a view of a modified form of the rear end. of the tongue.

Similar reference characters refer to like parts throughout the several views.

The tongue shown in the drawings is formed of two angle bars 1 and 2, a top plate 3, a bottom plate 41, cross bars 5 and 6, together with separators, links and bearings to be described later on.

The angle bar 2 overlaps the angle bar 1 to form the pole of the tongue, and the bars are secured together with rivets until theyreach the top plate 3. At about the middle of the top plate the angle bars 1 and 2 diverge, bending inward again at the points 7. To the rear of these points 7 the angle bars are given the proper form to fit between the hounds on the front axle, or any other desirable form. Near the points 7, the angles are braced by means of the cross bar 5, and near their rear ends by the cross bar 6. The manner of securing together of the angles 1 and 2, the plate 3 and the cross bars 5 and 6 will be determined by good. metal working practice.

In the front end of the pole is secured the clevis S. Properly spaced as may be necessary, to support the vertical flanges of the angle bars, are the spools 9 through which the rivets 10 pass. The heads of the rivets are countersunk to avoid injury to the horses.

The bottom plate 4 has upturned flanges 11 which are secured to the vertical flanges of the angle bars 1 and 2. A thimble 12 is secured between, the upper plate 3 and lower plate 1, and by its flanges 13 stiffens this construction, at the same time furnishing the lower bearings for the king bolt.

The link 14, provided with an opening at its free end, forms the upper bearing for the king bolt, and this link is pivoted on the rivet 15 which passes through the forward ends of the ties 16 and 17 and through the cross bar 5. The rear ends of these ties are connected to the angle bars 1 and 2 where they connect I to the cross bar 6.

To form a proper bearing for the queen bolt, I secure brackets 18 to the inner sides of the angle bars 1 and 2, and mount in these brackets the thimbles 19 which each connect to an angle bar at one end and to a bracket at the other, as shown in Fig. 3.

For use with heavy sleighs, I may extend the top flanges of the angles 1 and 2 and turn them up into rings 21 as shown in Fig. 6, by

. means of which rings the tongue is attached to the sleigh.

The construction shown possesses the following characteristics. The pole portion is of moderate weight. The point where the pole joins the frame is strongly reinforced. Proper bearings are provided for the king and queen bolts. The frame is properly reinforced.

Having now explained my invention, what I claim as my improvement and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a wagon tongue, the combination of a pair of longitudinally extending, overlapping angle bars to form the pole, which angles bend outward and then back to form a supporting frame, plates secured to said angle bars to stiffen the tongue at the point where the angle bars diverge, a bearing for the king bolt secured to said. plates, cross bars secured to said angle bars in the rear of said plates, brackets secured to said angle bars, and bearings for the queen bolt secured to said brackets and angle bars.

2. In a wagon tongue, the combination of a pair of longitudinally extending angle bars secured together to form the pole, plates secured to said angle bars intermediate their ends, a bearing for the king bolt secured to In testimony whereof I have signed this said plates, and bearings for the queen bolt application in the presence of two subscrib- 10 mounted on said angles. ing Witnesses.

3. A Wagon tongue comprisin a pair of L O A M. 4 5 longitudinally extendlng overlapping angle RTHUR VARNDR bars, separatlng spools between the lower Witnesses: flanges of the angle bars, and rlvets passing FRANK P. ANDRUS,

through the flanges and the spools. JOHN S. SMITH. 

